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ReMap
2 is an international open platform of contemporary art
running parallel to the 2nd Athens Biennale (June 16 to
October 4, 2009). It takes place in the culturally diverse and
dynamic Kerameikos and Metaxourgeio (KM) district of downtown
Athens. ReMap 2 considers and responds to the unique urban
energy and dynamic artistry of the neighborhood by offering a
rich web of cultural events and art happenings that aims to
introduce KM as a world-class contemporary art hub. ReMap
takes place every two years parallel to the Athens Biennale.
It is organized by the non-profit organization ReMap
KM.
Since
it started, it has attracted wide and varied audiences from
Greece and abroad. Its current programme will continue till
July 26th, as in September new exhibitions and projects will
be included.
Gallery Shows
A.ANTONOPOULOU.ART
AD
GALLERY
AMP
ANDERSEN’S CONTEMPORARY
BERNIER/ELIADES
THE BREEDER
REBECCA CAMHI GALLERY
LORAINI
ALIMANTIRI GAZONROUGE / GALERIE PARISA KIND
IBID
PROJECTS
KALFAYAN GALLERIES
JOHANN KÖNIG, BERLIN
NICE
& FIT
GALERIE GITI NOURBAKHSCH, BERLIN/ GALERIE
ISABELLA BORTOLOZZI, BERLIN/ MD72/ANBERG
PERES
PROJECTS
POTNIA THIRON – BANK OF ATTENTION
GALERIE EVA
PRESENHUBER
QBOX GALLERY
ILEANA TOUNTA CONTEMPORARY ART
CENTER
Independent Projects
Amateur Bicyclism – (Does the
road to art have a bike lane?)
Locus Athens
(non-profit)
Bespoke bikes designed by a selection
of Greek artists offer an eco-friendly option for viewing art
around the city.
Athens Biennale
The
Athens Biennale, in collaboration with Remap 2, offers
residencies and internships to selected candidates during the
2nd Athens Biennale 2009 HEAVEN. The residency is offered as
part of the Biennial Exchange and Residency Programme,
initiated by the European Biennial Network, with the support
of the Culture Programme of the European Union.
Manolis Baboussis,
Untitled
Manolis Baboussis presents, an
untitled installation, in the center of the courtyard of a
neoclassical building. Under the auspice of Ileana Tounta
Contemporary Art Center.
Dimitrios Antonitsis presents Hydra
School Projects
BLOODSPORT: The Illusion of Abstract
Gambling
National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST)
A History of performance (working
title), 16.09-20.09
FOUNTAINHEAD OR
BUCKETHEAD
The artist as a fountain-head and the
space where wishes come true. . Artist: Sofia Simaki Under the
auspice of Loraini Alimantiri Gazonrouge
FUCKING TOURISTS!
Independent curatorial by Konstantinos Dagritzikos and
Yael Messer. A group show involving 9 pairs of Greek-born and
Israeli-born young to mid-career artists, in two
parts/places/periods, Athens and Tel Aviv.
Giatrakou 28, The neutrality of
this section is disputed
Independent UK-based
artist group, curated by the visual artist Margarita
Myrogianni, organised by project manager George
Kyparissiadis.
Land of Promise
Independent curatorial by independent curator and
art ciritic Iliana Fokianaki
Gianni Pettena: Forgiving
Architecture
A site-specific intervention by the
cult Italian artist, architect and critic Gianni Pettena,
curated by Kaleidoscope editor Alessio Ascari and the writer
and curator Luca Cerizza.
Promise of Paradise
This project, by the Athenian architecture and landscape
architecture team doxiadis+, re-uses a found object on the
site, combined with simple planting.
Respass
Group show
presented by Ioannis Christoforakos and curated by Andreas
Antoniou.
Saint
Ghetto
Site-specific group show by young Viennese
artists. Artists: Florian Goldmann, Martin Grandits, Lilli
Thiessen, Bjoern Segschneider, Alexander Ruthner
Thermopylon 27:
FRANKENBIKE
In a former turnery, 6 curators
present artists from Greece and abroad, through individual
exhibitions that succeed one another every fortnight.
WIND IN ATHENS/ Möhren in
Athen
Ioannis Christoforakos proudly presents
Erik Steinbrecher
Lazha: A Momement/
Zakira
500 cameras for 500 children. A glimpse of
their reality in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.
Οrganization: Yolanda Markopoulou, Samar Shuhaibar, Carla
Tanas, Eleni Varvitsiotis, in collaboration with the NGO
Zakira
Documentation Project
Artist
and KM resident Katerina Kana is creating an online real time
visual diary of what is happening in the neighborhood during
ReMap 2 in the blog of www.remapkm.org. The project will lead to a special
publication, designed by the artist and produced by ReMap
KM.
Guerrilla Playground (tapedscape
#01)
Ø16 WORKSHOP is a group of young architects
and designers. The group has created a series of temporary,
mobile structures, in the concept of reuse and recycling,
present an ephemeral urban playground in an empty plot of the
KM area.
Open Air Screening Room
“Midsummer
Night’s Dream” (Title after the play, by Shakespeare)
Curated by Marina Fokidis, independent curator and art
critic
Assistant curator: Sofia Mavroudis
The
reference to this classic piece seems to form the ideal
symbolical background for the projections of contemporary
video works in the specific context of Remap 2, at the street
level of a highly congested area, where a series of different
-often contradictory to each other -activities are taking
place simultaneously. As an ephemeral escape exit window,
“Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is a film program diffused in three
different sections:
Random Rules, Artists selections from
YouTube
The project explores what YouTube means to
a certain intellectual community, by asking a number of
artists to choose videos from YouTube, and to curate their own
playlists in there. The result is a short of paradoxical
archive, which includes all the playlists, each under the name
of the artist-selector.
That’s all Greek to Me:
The
program presents video works by artists that live in Greece
and whose works, one way or another reflects the spirit, and
the pathos of the complex contemporary urban locality as well
as Shakespeare’s play. It will also include various past
compilations and activities related to video art, that took
place in Athens but has not been presented into a bigger
audience, such as a selection of the different ‘video issues’,
curated by the artistic collect “Into the Pill”, which have
been showed mainly in the Internet.
Intercessions:
The program presents a selection of longer
duration video works and/or solo presentation of various
international and Greek artists who are involved with the
galleries and individual projects participating in Remap 2,
and whose work shares affinities with Shakespeare’s piece.
Unlike the previous programs, each night of this section will
be dedicated to the body of work by only one or maximum two
artists.
More information about the artists and daily
programme, may be viewed at the Open Air Screening Room and
Calendar sections of www.remapkm.org
International Architecture Symposium
SiteSpecificStrategies
The international
architecture symposium under the title
“SiteSpecificStrategies” will take place in September. It
brings together KM residents, architects, urbanists and other
scientists who will explore the role of architecture in
shaping the future urban identity, using the KM area as a
reference. Τhe symposium will attempt to identify innovative
ways of participation and involvement in urban life and
propose models of urban transformation. A series of workshops
will focus specifically on the KM area through the development
of architectural propositions and the realization of
architectural events in the neighborhood. More information:
www.SiteSpecificStrategies.com
Image
Credits
Photography: Katerina Kana, Tung Walsh
Design:
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